New important updates for the two piston engine planes!
Also now you can download the planes separately from the first post.
Tecnam-P2006T-Greatly
improved fuel consumption which means proper range!
I was unhappy with the previous quick hack solution so I made a new one which uses a nasal script to follow the level of the fuel in the tanks and when it decreases it adds back (or subtracts) a percentage of that difference based on a variable (consumables/fuel/fuel-flow-correction) that can be adjusted in the base settings file.
There is also an xml property rule which calculates the fuel flow to display it with the instruments.
This means that what the instruments show and what actually happens is controlled by two different methods controlled by the same variable so keep this in mind in case you want to debug or adjust settings.
Also this method is independent on the engines so it can be used on any kind of plane to decrease or increase the fuel consumption.
One side effect is that if you decrease the fuel from the sliders in the fuel menu the script will add that percentage but i see this more like a debug feature to make sure that the scripts work than a bug
-Optimized
auto mixture and changed the fuel tanks back to the correct size now that the fuel consumption problems is solved
-Fixed the
torque instrument...mostly, it's not perfectly aligned but I really dislike editing images and for this same reason there are a few other less important instruments (for me) that are not working for which I have no plans to fix them.
-More drag, less lift (these where inaccurate on purpose to help with the fuel problem) which means much
more accurate flight model performance.
I followed the manual but I left a small bit of extra power and range there, because I prefer to err on this side of things
You shouldn't keep that throttle to 100% anyway
Diamond-Da42-Improvements to the
flight model.
I took the automixture and fuel adjustment scripts I made for the Tecnam and used the automixture to better shape the power curve of the engine at high altitudes because the solution I used in the past to keep the fuel consumption low (underpowered engines with an added turbo) was making them too strong at high altitudes.
Also here I used the fuel script to increase instead of decrease the fuel consumption to get it closer to the real thing (it was already good but shaping that power curve reduced consumption at high altitude).
It's probably the most accurate of the flight models I made, the speeds, stall, fuel consumption are all very close to the real one, I tested the various throttle settings and weights and altitudes and sometimes I get a little faster, sometimes a little slower (usually more faster than slower) and the fuel consumption is usually a bit lower at high throttle and a bit higher at low throttle (compared to the real plane) so on average it's pretty close.
Well, I hope the other models I made are not that bad too (except that bit of optional extra performance I leave for fun purposes), especially the ATR-72-500 which was the most fun one until now.
-Made the
display of fuel consumption work and adjusted the display of the power load.
Future plans for these 4 planes and the other two I updated (P180 and ATR-72-500):
none.I am mostly happy with them.
I wanted to add an yoke, pedals and seats for the Falcon-50 cockpit but I didn't found any suitable yoke plus considering that I noticed it was missing after several updates I guess it's not that important.
The DO-228 I removed from my virtual hangar because there where too many planes and in the STOL category DHC6 was the clear winner so definitely no more updates there.
So if anyone wants to backup these 6 planes somewhere now they
probably reached the end of my improvements for them.
Unless I will find some bugs in future flights of course...